3dfx To Show Off VSA-100 At GDC

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Just when you thought it was safe to get a Voodoo 3 ...

By IGN Staff

The fellas at 3dfx have announced that they will be showing off their new graphics chip, the VSA-100, at the Game Developer Conference this week in San Jose -- the debut of the upcoming graphics chipset Stateside. The company will demo the boards and some games utilizing the new full-scene anti-aliasing capability which reportedly improves the overall image quality of all games.

In case you don't know, the VSA-100 chipset will be used in the upcoming Voodoo 4 and 5 graphics boards. The Voodoo4 board will use a single VSA-100 chip which will offer a 3D engine capable of rendering over 333 Megapixels per second and a 350 MHz RAMDAC for 2D resolutions as high as 2048x1536. The Voodoo5 board will feature dual chips and will just be stupid fast. The Voodoo5 family is for serious gamers and will showcase the full benefits of the VSA-100's scalability, full-scene anti-aliasing, T-Buffer digital cinematic effects, and high-quality texture compression. As if this wasn't enough, the Voodoo5 6000 will feature four VSA-100 chips, offering speeds so mind-blowing fast that if you think about it too long your brain will actually melt and seep out of ears. Stop thinking about it!